Incredible video of what a pilot sees and passengers miss

GETTING passengers to listen to the pre-flight safety demonstration is tough. But a Flybe pilot came up with a hilarious way to grab his flight’s attention.

”Welcome aboard, you’ll fly this service direct to the beautiful sunny island of Palma de Majorca,” the pilot of the low-cost European airline said.

The only thing was, they were not flying to the vibrant resort city in Spain. They were flying to Exeter, a city in southwest England.

“Oh, sorry, no, my fault, I’ve got the wrong day again. That’s tomorrow. This evening — wait for it, it is even more exciting — we are going to Exeter,” he corrected himself.

But the jokes didn’t stop there.

“We’ve been looking at the maps, hopefully we have got the map the right way around. We think we should head right after take off.

“Luckily for you lot I’m not doing anymore driving this evening. I’ve done my flying for the day — it wasn’t pretty so I’m going to refrain from that for the rest of the evening.

“I’m going to hand the reins over to the man himself, my colleague on the right hand side, his name is Steve Moore ... He’s just been telling me actually on the way down that he hasn’t yet had a bad landing in his entire career so lots to look forward to.”

But it wasn’t just himself he poked fun at, also cracking jokes about the cabin crew as he introduced them to passengers.

“Anyway ladies and gents, you are not here because you need to get to the UK. You are here because you’ve done your research and you’ve worked out that here at Flybe, we pride ourselves on employing some of the very finest cabin crew this industry has to offer. I’m sorry to say they are all on annual leave,” he quipped as the cabin erupted with laughter.

Passenger David-Joe Williams, from Ilfracombe on the North Devon coast of England, recorded the pilot’s amusing in-flight speech and posted it on social media.

Speaking to DevonLive, Mr Williams described it as the “best pilot announcement ever”.

“I think all announcements should be like that. It’s makes the pilot human and helps anyone on the flight who has had a bad day to feel better,” he said.